VALORANT Champions 2025: Schedule, teams, how to watch, and more

After a long and competitive VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT for short), VALORANT Champions 2025 is almost upon us to wrap it all up. This esports tournament is set to be one of the year’s biggest events. 

For those who want to know more about the upcoming tournament, we’ve got all the details, including when and where the event will take place, the teams competing and how you can watch all the action. 

VALORANT Champions is a yearly tournament where the best VALORANT teams face off to be crowned the world champion of the game’s esports scene after a long and gruelling battle called the Road to Champions Paris. There are multiple competing regions within the VALORANT esports scene, with the best teams from each region securing a spot in the tournament. 

The Road to Champions Paris is a season-long battle between four different regions. The top two teams from each region secured a spot in the VALORANT Champions 2025, with the remaining eight spots filled by the teams with the most Champion Points accumulated across the season. 

The tournament consists of a playoff stage, where teams from different groups face each other to secure a spot in the quarter-finals. This progresses to the semi-finals and then, lastly, the finals, with the top team taking home a cash prize. 

The VALORANT Champions 2025 tournament is taking place in Paris, France at the Accor Arena. The venue can hold up to 20,300 depending on the set up and structure of the event, putting the event on par with the League of Legends World’s Finals in 2024 which hosted 20,000 people. 

The playoffs kick off on September 12, 2025, and games run until the finals, which will take place on October 5, 2025. 

If you’re hoping to attend in person, then you can pick up tickets straight from the venue’s website. For those unable to make the journey over to France, you can also watch the tournament online with details below. 

For those who want to watch from the comfort of their own home, the VALORANT Champions 2025 will be streamed online for free on different platforms. You can watch the entire commentary, including pre- and post-game analysis, on the VALORANT Esports channels on YouTube and Twitch. 

There are 16 teams participating in the VALORANT Champions 2025 tournament, each separated into four groups. During the playoffs, teams play against others within their group before two from each group qualify for the quarter-finals. Here are the teams and groups:

Group A: 

Group B: 

Group C: 

Group D: 

VALORANT Champions has been running since 2021, meaning there have been four winners of the tournament since it first started. Here are the previous winners as well as the team rosters: 

Despite the winners of the tournament taking home the majority share of the prize pool, all competing teams will be bagging a chunk of the cash. The total is $2,250,000 and is divided as follows: 

The VALORANT Champions 2025 is one of the biggest esports events of the year, with 16 teams set to compete for a massive multi-million dollar prize pool. Those who want to watch the event in person can do so in Paris, France, with tickets on sale now. However, anyone who can’t make it to France can watch the event streamed on the official VALORANT Esports YouTube and Twitch channels. We’ll be covering the event as it occurs, including previews of the already confirmed group stages.